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Club Report – Gold Coast Titans

The Gold Coast Titans have only been in the NRL since 2007. The Titans franchise are the most recent iteration of top-level rugby league’s attempts to crack the Gold Coast market, following in the footsteps of the Giants (1988-89), Seagulls (1990-95) and Chargers (1996-98).

Gold Coast peaked in 2009 and 2010, managing top four finishes. Since then, results have been thinner on the ground and the club collected a wooden spoon in 2011. The Titans finished outside of the finals spots every year until last season when the Eels were docked enough points for them to sneak in, only to be eliminated in the first round against the Broncos.

Class

Using the Eratosthenes system, we measure the long term class – their structural competence – of NRL clubs.

The Gold Coast Titans’ current rating is 1435, putting them third last in the league ahead of Wests and Newcastle. The Titans have had an average class rating of 1468 since 2007. Since 1998, only three teams have averaged worse ratings: the Cowboys, the Rabbitohs and the Tigers.

Over the last decade, four teams have not fared as well: the Bulldogs, the Sharks, the Panthers and the Eels.

The Titans peaked at a maximum rating of 1528 during the 2010 finals series. This is the lowest of all the teams but have only had half the time to achieve anything. The Gold Coast’s lowest ever rating was 1415, after round 7, 2017. There are seven teams that have had lower ratings, including Cronulla, Manly, Newcastle, North Queensland, Souths, New Zealand and Wests.